Planned health and safety tree works
Find out about our planned health and safety tree works.
For medium and large-sized trees, it is normal for the tree felling and stump removal to be done in 2 stages. This is due to the differing equipment required.
Every year the council undertakes a cycle of routine health and safety inspections as part of the council's cyclical tree maintenance programme.
The trees are inspected using Visual Tree Assessment (VTA) techniques, a standard approach to tree risk assessment, involving the diagnosis of structural defects, the evaluation of their significance from visible signs and the application of arboricultural biomechanical knowledge.
A number of issues were raised regarding the health of a number of trees. As a result, the following essential arboricultural safety works have been instructed.
Works will take place between August 2024
What we are working on
Location | Ward | Species | Details |
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Opposite 5 Langley Grove | Coombe Vale | Whitebeam | Fell and grind to 30cm (tree has split in half, the remainder of the tree is extremely one-sided and liable to further failure) |
Outside 19 Woodside Road | Coombe Vale | Horse chestnut | Fell and grind to 30cm (major basal decay and hollowing) |
Opp LC5 Beaconsfield Road, New Malden | Coombe Vale | Cherry | Fell & grind to 30cm (dead) |
Outside 117 Coombe Road | Coombe Vale | Horse chestnut | Fell & grind to 30cm (dead) |
Outside 8 Melrose Gardens | Coombe Vale | Rowan | Fell & grind to 30cm (dead) |
Outside 15 Risborough Drive | Motspur Park & Old Malden East | Cherry | Fell & grind to 30cm (major basal decay) |
Outside 145 Pembury Avenue | Motspur Park & Old Malden East | Hawthorn | Fell & grind to 30cm (major basal decay) |
OS 93 Compton Crescent | Chessington South & Malden Rushett | Cherry | Fell and Grind stump |
OS 168 Elgar Avenue | Alexandra | Apple | Fell and Grind stump |
Outside 2 to 12 Green Lane | Chessington South & Malden Rushett | Crab Apple | Fell tree |
Outside 37 Reynolds Avenue | Chessington South & Malden Rushett | Cherry | Fell & Grind stump |
Outside 60 High Street New Malden | New Malden Village | Golden Rain | Remove metal tree guard, fell and Grind stump |
OS 4 Langley Avenue | Surbiton Hill | Plane | Crown reduce by 40% - Meet Tree Officer on-site |
OS 3 Canbury Avenue | Kingston Town | Pear | Crown reduce 10% |
Outside 10 Laburnum Grove | Coombe Vale | Purple plum | Crown lift to 2.5 (low growth obstructing road) |
OS 164/166 Elgar Avenue | Alexandra | Cherry | Clear basal growth for sight lines |
OS 23/25 The Manor Drive | Old Malden | Field Maple | Clear basal growth to crown break for slight lines |
Left of 1 Norton Avenue | Alexandra | Maple | Prune up lower crown stub cuts over pavement |
Outside 28 Kingscote Road | Coombe Vale | Lebanese apple | Remove stakes (very tight) |
Opposite 36 Melrose Gardens | Coombe Vale | Cherry | Remove stakes (very tight) |